Now the jingle hop has begun

Sharing a fun Christmas card I made for my former manager using the Hop Hop Set from Art Impressions.

There’s four us who used to work for the same manager and although we’ve all moved to different teams we came together for a Christmas lunch at his house and this was the card I made for us to sign.  Being four, I had to do some masking with the stamp to add in an extra woman, which turned out to be way trickier than it should have been!

The layout of my card is from the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches.  I added interest to my otherwise pretty CAS card through layers of plain cardstock and some of the Tim Holtz Deco Sheets.  When it came to the sentiment, there was no way I was going to be able to mask as I needed to for it to be in one line so I decided to print my own.  That also allowed me to alter it slightly to fit with the festive season.

For my colours I’ve used the current palette at Merry Monday, picking up all of the colours in the various outfits and bouncy balls.  To keep this Christmassy though, I’ve used red and green as the base of my card.

As this is a Christmas card and it is for a guy I’m entering it in the current challenge at The Male Room.  Being for a guy I went pretty CAS on it.  The only embellie is a Fluted Star from Tim Holtz, which I added to cover a stray bit of inking (didn’t quite get the masking right!).

Ingredients:

Chalks & Powders etc

Ranger Embossing Powder ~ Extra Fine Detail Clear

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Creative Memories Punches ~ Classic Corner Rounder

Embellishments

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Findings ~ Fluted Stars

Inks & Paints etc

Kuretake Gansai Tambi Water Colors ~ No 20 Black, No 30 Cadmium Red, No 34 Dark Pink, No 43 Mid Yellow, No 51 May Green, No 58 Ever Green, No 61 Cornflower Blue, No 64 Blue, No 90 Gold & No 95 Silver

Stampin’ Up! Stampin’ Pad ~ Basic Black

Tim Holtz Distress Reinkers ~ Tea Dye & Vintage Photo

Papers

Bazzill Card Shoppe Cardstock ~ Marshmallow

Bazzill Smoothie Cardstock ~ Apple Crush

Stampin' Up! Cardstock ~ Cherry Cobbler

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Paperie ~ Deco Sheets Christmas & Holiday

Stamps

Art Impressions ~ 4384 Hop Hop Set

Challenges

Freshly Made Sketches #317 ~ A Sketch by Jen M.

The Male Room #75 ~ Christmas/Winter Wishes/December Celebrations

Merry Monday #269 {Color Challenge}

Thanks for stopping by!